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Reasoning Models at Work: When Deeper Thinking Pays Off

Reasoning models think before they answer, at a cost. When test-time compute pays off, how routing cuts spend, and what on-premise brings.
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Reasoning models think before they answer, at a cost. When test-time compute pays off, how routing cuts spend, and what on-premise brings.

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